“Mr. Kappers, in an inspired stroke, travels to places Mr. Lomax visited during a long career of collecting the world’s folk music on tape. He finds some of the people Mr. Lomax captured and plays the old recordings for them. Watching their faces light up is beautiful.” —Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

 “Mr. Lomax … says in archival footage that when he played back recordings of work songs by Texas prisoners breaking rock or Scottish women beating tartan, ‘it changed everything for them.’ Re-creating the power of those moments of recognition is the greatest strength of this moving work by Rogier Kappers.” —Anne Bothwell, Dallas Morning News 

 “LOMAX THE SONGHUNTER profiles a larger-than-life figure who set out to do no less than ‘capture the world’ with his tape recorder. Dutch filmmaker Rogier Kappers… presents a wealth of footage he shot [following Lomax’s] quest to capture the music and folkways of the world before they vanished.” —Chattanooga News Free Press

 “A warming presentation of the life of one of the most important musicologists in the world.” —Anthropology Review Database